Dojima River Biennale 2015: Take Me To The River
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 4692
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Osaka, Japan
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- July
- Year of first exhibition
- 2015
- URL
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https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/29564/2015-take-me-to-the-river/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Research Process
How will the rise of the network society, and an emerging global 'space of flows', change our conception of time, and what impact will this have on our sense of
self, traditional knowledge systems and the institutions that support them? As Artistic Director, Trevor was the first British curator to lead a Japanese biennial. On
the former site of the Dojima Rice Exchange (1697-1939), the world's first futures market, in the 'Aqua-metropolis' of Osaka, he took the metaphor of the river as time passing to reflect upon the rapidly changing conditions of the digital network society and the new temporalities produced by an accelerated flow of information, circulating around the planet.
Referencing Manuel Castells' concept of an emerging global 'space of flows', the project investigated the ways in which this confluence of multiple temporalities is actively 'dissolving time', installing society in a perpetual ephemerality. As a consequence, time-honoured hierarchies of knowledge are subject to powerful eroding forces, while a nascent form of communicative capitalism is actively redefining subjectivity, described by Bifo Berardi as a process of 'de-singularisation'.
Working with 15 artists and collectives from 8 different countries, Trevor designed a complex series of site-specific, immersive installations throughout the Dojima River Forum, described as 'a superb, multi-layered view of the state of globalisation today.'
(REALKYOTO)
Research Insights
The precise combination of the conceptual framework, the curation of different artists' responses and resonance with place generated a series of insights into our changing relationship to time in the emerging global network society, revealing how subjectivities are being re-purposed for immaterial labour while knowledge systems and associated long-standing institutions are washed away in the rising flood of communications.
Dissemination
25 July-30 August 2015
A large-scale exhibition, including site-specific installations, performances and publication.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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